They include interviews with parents and children, a range of cognitive tasks, such as recalling a sequence of numbers backwards, general knowledge quizzes, and personality and emotional testing.<\/p>\n
Defenders of the tests say they offer a more objective method of assessment than the potentially anecdotal and subjective evidence of social workers and other experts.<\/p>\n
But critics say they cannot meaningfully predict whether someone will make a good parent.<\/p>\n
Opponents have also long argued that they are designed around Danish cultural norms and point out they are administered in Danish, rather than Kalaallisut, the mother tongue of most Greenlanders.<\/p>\n
This can lead to misunderstandings, they say.<\/p>\n
Greenlanders are Danish citizens, enabling them to live and work on the mainland.<\/p>\n
Thousands live in Denmark, drawn by its employment opportunities, education and healthcare, among other reasons.<\/p>\n
Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute.<\/p>\n
In May, the government said it hoped in due course to review around 300 cases \u2013 including ones involving FKU tests \u2013 in which Greenlandic children were forcibly removed from their families.<\/p>\n
But as of October, the BBC found that just 10 cases where parenting tests were used had been reviewed by the government – and no Greenlandic children had been returned as a result.<\/p>\n
Keira’s assessment in 2024, carried out when she was pregnant, concluded that she did not have “sufficient parental competencies to care for the newborn independently”.<\/p>\n
Keira says the questions she was asked included: “Who is Mother Teresa?” and “How long does it take for the sun’s rays to reach the Earth?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They include interviews with parents and children, a range of cognitive tasks, such as recalling a sequence of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-586384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115592367122903608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}